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Dog rescued from Mexico earthquake rubble six days on

Six days after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck Mexico City, a dog has been rescued from the rubble of a collapsed apartment.

Japanese and Mexican rescuers found the small dog and pulled it safely from the rubble, almost a week after the country’s deadliest quake in 32 years.

Rescuers cradled the dog, reportedly in good health, before he was checked over by Red Cross paramedics.

It’s hoped he will be reunited with his family.

Japanese rescue workers reach the dog in a collapsed building where the search of victims continues, in Mexico City. (AAP)Rescue tream members search for victims in the rubble of a collapsed building. (AAP)

As rescuers battle against the odds to find more survivors, Mexicans have packed churches to pray for victims.

As an aftershock jolted southwestern Mexico yesterday (local time), the death toll from earthquake climbed to 320 people.

With thousands of buildings damaged, many survivors have slept on the street outside their homes. Estimates of the cost of the earthquake ran as high as $A10 billion.

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Many residents been traumatised by the second major quake to strike Mexico City in their lifetime.
It follows a devastating 1985 tremor killed an estimated 10,000 people.

A rescue dog participates in the search of earthquake victims among the derbis of a building. (AAP)

In the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the national shrine of the majority Roman Catholic country, thousands of people gathered to pray.

"I came to ask God for strength for those who lost loved ones and for the Virgin to watch over us and keep us safe," 69-year-old Maria Gema Ortiz said.

"Thanks to all those who came from other countries to help. Thanks to all and long live Mexico!"

A crucifix, recovered from a collapsed church, is held up by ropes inside an auditorium during a Mass, in Tepeojuma. (AAP)A man rests with his dog Max in a university gymnasium in Del Valle, where around 100 people whose homes were destroyed, damaged or adjacent to damaged buildings have sought shelter. (AAP)

Makeshift places of worship have popped up next to the crumbling cement and mangled steel of collapsed buildings in the deeply religious country.

In upscale Roma, one of the hardest-hit neighbourhoods of the capital, a priest led mass for nearly two dozen people under a blue tarp while a nun handed out small cards with an image of the Virgin of Guadalupe, who according to the Catholic faith first appeared to an Aztec convert in 1531.

More than 44,000 public schools in six states were due to reopen on Monday (local time), but only 103 of the 4000 public schools in Mexico City would open so as not to impede rescue and relief efforts.

Rescuers have narrowed their search to a handful of buildings in the sprawling metropolitan area of 20 million people, using advanced audio equipment to detect signs of life beneath tonnes of rubble, with help from teams from as far afield as Israel and Japan.